Jessica Davis

ViewSonic has added to its VA series of LCD monitors, the company announced the week of June 25 at the National Education Computing Conference in Atlanta. The new displays include the 19-inch VA916, a traditional 4:3 display, and the 17-inch VA1716w and 19-inch VA1916w, both widescreen displays that offer panoramic viewing for multiple documents and […]

Nimsoft has taken advantage of new application programming interfaces from VMWare, enhancing its monitoring support for the virtualization vendor’s software. The new APIs from VMWare, available in the most recent release of the software, allow administrators to extract more information than previously about the health of the software and applications, said Ken Vanderweel, marketing director […]

Ingram Micro increased the magnitude of its Seismic managed services platform Monday, announcing two new major components – print services and online backup and restore. Seismic Online Backup and Restore, powered by VaultLogix, gives Seismic partners the option of offering data storage and retrieval for PCs, laptops, file servers, and application programs and databases. Seismic […]

Channel consulting firm Amazon Consulting is adding two new components to its partner collaboration solutions. The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., said the week of June 18 that it would add a new customer renewal component and a new solutions directory. The PartnerPath Solutions Directory is intended to provide an online venue for partners […]

Ingram Micro VARs will now have access to network management and environmental monitoring products from Netmon Inc. Netmon framed the move to the Santa Ana, Calif.-based distribution giant as part of its plan to open up its product offerings to more resellers this year. “Ingram Micro’s ability to efficiently and cost-effectively distribute IT products to […]

As the costs of managing IT in-house continues to rise, Microsoft-application outsourcer Azaleos is looking to cash in on making it less expensive and easier, particularly as customers look at migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2007. The company tells customers its appliance-based outsourced migration and then ongoing managed service of the application can each save IT […]

VARs that work together make more money. That’s according to a new survey of members of the International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners, conducted by market research firm IDC, that looked at partner-to-partner collaborations and found a key trend among VARs growing revenue—they collaborate. “There’s a whole body of research around network theory, and Metcalfe’s […]

Ingram Micro signed a $96 million deal to acquire part of DBL Distributing Inc., a U.S. consumer electronics distributor. The IT technology distribution giant said the acquisition marked another step forward in its consumer electronics strategy and another sign the space between consumer and commercial technologies is thinning. “This strategy positions Ingram Micro at the […]

Even as analysts have declared partner relationship management platforms a dead technology over the last year, BlueRoads, a provider of such a platform, has worked even harder to prove the value of its software – upgrading the platform four times over that time period. “It wasn’t that PRM was dead,” said Shinya Akamine, CEO of […]

Ingram Micro is extending what has been its Canadian-only outlet program—selling refurbished and discontinued products—to solution providers and other channels in the United States. The company announced the program June 12, saying it meets a significant demand in the marketplace for end-of-life technology. “Technology is moving so fast today that yesterday’s hot technology is quickly […]

Tech Data will expand its solutions for secure, local and remote software application access with the addition of Ericom Software technologies to its line card. The distributor, based in Clearwater, Fla., said it will now offer Ericom’s PowerTerm WebConnect software solutions. “While reliable remote access to software applications provides clear productivity gains for any business […]

Looking to bring appliance-enabled software services to smaller companies, Jumpnode Systems has created a reseller program and also began signing MSPs to use its appliance for monitoring and remote management. The three-year-old Minneapolis-based company, which only began shipping the appliance two years ago, launched the partner program at the end of April and has already […]